Sunday, June 17, 2007

Writing courses

As you already know if you have been reading this blog recently, I would love to do an MA in Creative Writing. Soon. But right now it is becoming even more clear that it would be silly to try to commit to such a major undertaking until things are a little more settled at home.

The Open University has a level three course planned for the autumn of 2008 which I might do instead. As it is anticipated that the syllabus will contain playwriting as well as prose and poetry, I have been thinking of perhaps doing the short level one course on playwriting this autumn as an introduction.

But that won't help with my currently stalled novel. So I was delighted to read on Susan Hill's blog today that she is intending to run a free, online course through her blog. Sounds like a fantastic opportunity to learn from an expert and I have already sent in my name. Anyone else up for this?

3 comments:

Yvonne said...

Thanks for the heads up, I've signed up for the course too. Looks good.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a great idea - I've done an MA, but there's always more to learn, and I'm feeling stale already, just a year later.

Cathy said...

Apparently she has been inundated with people wanting to do this course!